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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Accommodation
Vowel Digraph
Sound Symbol Association
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
2. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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3. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
James Hinshelwood
Battery
Three Layers of Language
4. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Composite Score
Middle English
Chall's Stage 3
Auditory Learners
5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Phonemic Awareness
Adolf Kusmaul
Derived Score
Curriculum referenced tests
6. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Chall's Stage 0
Phoneme
Macron
7. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diagnostic tests
Components of Reading Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
Consonant
8. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
Chall's Stage 0
VAKT
James Hinshelwood
Phonological Awareness
9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
VV
Simultaneous teaching
IMSLEC
Oral Language
10. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
IDEA
Vr
NICHD
Modification
11. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Visual Processing
Progress Monitoring
VC
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
12. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
WRAT
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Base Word
Texas Education Code 28.06
13. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Academic Achievement Tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Affix
Auditory Learners
14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Joe Torgesen
Norm-Referenced Test
Criterion referenced tests
15. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Percentile/ percentile rank
VV
Impulsivity
VAKT
16. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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17. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
V-e
GORT
Samuel T. Orton
Consonant Digraph
18. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Auditory Learners
Old English
SBOE
Composite Score
19. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Frank Smith
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Percentile/ percentile rank
Accent
20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Consonant
Expressive language
Diagnostic tests
21. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Components of Reading Instruction
Modification
Towre
Six basic types of syllables
22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
WRAT
Morpheme
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Phonological Awareness
23. State Board of Eduation
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
CTOPP
VC
SBOE
24. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Top-down Reading Approach
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Morpheme
Tilde
25. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonology
Diphthong
Semantics
26. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Affix
Norm-Referenced Test
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test
27. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Phonemic Awareness
VAKT
Comprehension
Direct Instruction
28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Latin layer of language
Sight Words
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
29. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Derivative
Visual Processing
Mathew Effect
Diphthong
30. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Chall's Stage 3
Great Vowel Shift
Components of Reading Instruction
Six basic types of syllables
31. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Anna Gillingham
Rate
NICHD
Accuracy
32. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Matthew Effect
Multi-Sensory Approach
Auditory Learners
Greek layer of language
33. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Keith Stanovich
Mathew Effect
Chall's Stage 2
Prefix
34. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Standardized test
Modification
NICHD
Texas Education Code 38.003
35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Analytic
James Hinshelwood
ADHD
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
36. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Sight Words
Reliability
VC
Syntax
37. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Pre-English
Frank Smith
Phonics
Suffix
38. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Mastery level
Accent
Morpheme
Whole Language
39. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Derivative
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IDEA
VV
40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonology
Battery
Norm-referenced tests
CTOPP
41. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Age equivalent
Closed Syllable
Auditory Learners
Macron
42. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Academic Achievement Tests
Trigraph
Anna Gillingham
Standard Scores
43. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Raw score
Diagnostic tests
Pre-English
Middle English
44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Morpheme
Chall's Stage 1
Mastery level
Frank Smith
45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Top-down Reading Approach
Macron
Letter naming Chart
Phoneme
46. Open syllable
Components of Reading Instruction
Open Syllable
V >
The Norman Conquest
47. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Ability
Modification
Derived Score
Dyslexia
48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Grade equivalents
Achievement test
ADHD
Sight Words
49. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Standard deviation
VV
Accommodation
Raw score
50. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
CTOPP
Age equivalent
Bottom-up Reading Approachs